Gevgelija is a town with a population of 15,685 located in the very southeast of the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

 along the banks of the Vardar River, situated at the country's main border with Greece

Greece

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 (Bogorodica-Evzoni

Evzoni

Evzoni is a town in Kilkis Prefecture in Central Macedonia, Greece. The main border crossing between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia is located here. The Macedonian town opposite Evzoni is Bogorodica, in Gevgelija municipality....

), the point which links the motorway from Skopje

Skopje

Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

 and three other former Yugoslav capitals (Belgrade

Belgrade

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, Zagreb

Zagreb

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 and Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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) with Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

. The town is the seat of Gevgelija Municipality

Gevgelija municipality

Gevgelija is a municipality in southern Republic of Macedonia. Gevgelija is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found...

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The town is fraternized with the Slovenia

Slovenia

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n town of Sežana

Sežana

Sežana is a town and a municipality in the Slovenian Littoral region of Slovenia, near the border with Italy. According to the census of 2008, it has a population of 12,470, of which around 5,332 live in the town of Sežana and the rest in the neighbouring rural areas.Sežana is located about on the...

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Name

In Macedonian

Macedonian language

Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

 the town is called Gevgelija (Гевгелија). It is known as Gevgeli in Turkish

Turkish language

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, Gevgelí (Γευγελή) in Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

, Gevgeli (Гевгели) in Bulgarian

Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...

 and Đevđelija (Ђевђелија) in Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

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Demographics

The town of Gevgelija has 15,685 residents, most of whom are Macedonians.

	Number	%
TOTAL	15,685	100
Macedonians Macedonians (ethnic group) The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...	15,093	96.22
others	592	3.92

Geography

Located between the mountains Kozuf

Kožuf

Kožuf mountain is a mountain situated in the southern part of the Republic of Macedonia and partly in Greece. Its most western parts reach the river Blashnica, and the north-western side stretches in a line, from the Mrzhechko village via the village Konopishte, through the course of Boshava to...

 and Pajak only 70 km from Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

 and 165 km from Skopje

Skopje

Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

, the town acts as a rail depot between the two countries, making it a central location in its region. Its position in the south of the country gives it a warm, Mediterranean climate

Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate is the climate typical of most of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, and is a particular variety of subtropical climate...

, making it the optimal location in the Republic of Macedonia for cultivation of fruits and vegetables such as figs, lemons, and grapes. The town is also a centre for raising silkworms, an integral part of the country's silk trade. Alongside its agriculture, Gevgelija's economy consists of a light industry sector. Tourism is growing, with a spa located in a nearby village.

Gevgelija has recently seen the construction of a number of casinos in the city itself and its surroundings.

Sister cities

Gevgelija is twinned

Town twinning

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 with:

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